Although he hadn't seen Shen Xiao's mother and didn't know anything about this woman, just because Shen Xiao didn't want to answer the phone, Chu Yunji already deeply hated Shen Xiao's mother.

He hates anyone who doesn't like Shen Xiao or is not good to Shen Xiao.

The phone rang five or six times, and Shen Xiao finally opened the answer button-

"Hey, Mom. ”

Shen Xiao's voice was indifferent and detached, if it weren't for the fact that she was calling "Mom", Chu Yunji almost thought that she was talking to a stranger she had never met.

Shen Xiao's mother's voice came clearly from the phone, and because it was close, Chu Yunji could hear it clearly: "Xiaoxiao, are you going home for the Mid-Autumn Festival?"

"No, I don't go back. Shen Xiao immediately refused.

"You haven't been home for the Mid-Autumn Festival for several years, and my mother misses you. Shen Xiao's mother said.

Shen Xiao's eyes immediately turned red.

But she still said resolutely: "I don't have time, I'm too busy with work, and the boss won't let me go." ”

Chu Yunji: "......????"

He looked at Shen Xiao with some surprise: What was she talking about?

What does it mean that the boss refuses to let go?

Isn't she the boss herself?

Realizing that there were still many unknown inside affairs between Shen Xiao and his original family, Chu Yunjian held his breath and didn't dare to speak casually.

The conversation between Shen Xiao and his mother continues:

"Why is your boss like this! You're just a salesman, and he can still hold on to you? Even if you want to accompany a customer, you can still make people unable to go home for several years for the holidays? What customer is so amazing, I'll go and ask him face to face, what customer has to accompany him during the New Year's holiday, I'll see how he answers!"

Chu Yunji was even more surprised when he heard what Shen Xiao's mother said.

Sale......?

Doesn't Shen Xiao's mother know that Shen Xiao is the president of FancyArt?

Shen Xiao told her mother that she was just a salesman?

Shen Xiao frowned: "Mom, don't make trouble." I've managed to make some achievements, and everybody says I might have a chance to get promoted this year, and if you come over and mess things up, I'll be angry, I'm really going to be angry. ”

"But Xiaoxiao, you can't always spend it in those places! Girls have to get married after all, you said that you have never heard of any boyfriends in your years. You accompany the customer every day, can the customer live with you or what? I don't care, you have to go home this Mid-Autumn Festival! Mom has arranged for a handsome guy to meet you, and I guarantee that you will like it as soon as you see it!"

Chu Yunji: "——!!!!!"

Chu Yunjian was so anxious that he gritted his teeth.

He grabbed Shen Xiao's wrist and shook his head desperately at Shen Xiao.

The corners of Shen Xiao's mouth couldn't help but hook.

For some reason, as soon as he saw Chu Yunji's face, Shen Xiao's cold heart softened.

She didn't want to talk to her mother any longer, so she said in a calm and tough tone:

"Mom, I have a boyfriend, don't bother arranging it. I'm not going back to this Mid-Autumn Festival, so be it, I'm going to get busy. ”

"Wait a minute, Xiaoxiao, you're ......!"

Shen Xiao hung up the phone regardless of how anxiously his mother shouted on the phone.

Turning her head, she smiled at Chu Yunji: "What's wrong?"

Chu Yunji looked at her clear eyes nervously: "Xiaoxiao, don't go." ”

"I said, I'm not going. Shen Xiao held his hand instead: "Don't be afraid. ”

Chu Yunji nodded obediently, like a big dog that was comforted by his master, so docile that people couldn't help but feel distressed.

"Yun Yan, don't you have anything to ask me?" Shen Xiao touched his cold ears and asked softly.

Chu Yun was stunned.

He was silent for a moment and said, "I...... May I ask?"

"There's nothing you can't do. Shen Xiao chuckled: "It's not something unsightly." ”

"Then I asked......" Chu Yun pondered for a long time, and couldn't think of more euphemistic words, so he could only cut to the point directly: "Doesn't Ling Tang know about FancyArt?"

"Yes. Shen Xiao replied in seconds.

"Why did you hide ...... from her?" Chu Yunji looked at Shen Xiao cautiously.

Shen Xiao raised his eyebrows and shrugged: "I have a younger brother." You get the idea, right?"

Chu Yunji: "......"

I don't understand.

I don't understand it at all.

But he was embarrassed to show that he didn't understand.

So he nodded as if he didn't understand.

Shen Xiao saw his confusion and smiled helplessly: "My family is very patriarchal. ”

“——！”

Chu Yunji finally understood.

He looked at Shen Xiao, who had a calm and breezy face, and didn't know what to say to comfort her.

He wasn't even sure if Shen Xiao needed his comfort.

As a man, he enjoyed many privileges given to him by this society, and he didn't even understand what it meant for a girl to have a younger brother in the family.

But he knows what partiality is.

Unreasonable eccentricity, he has been experiencing since he was a child.

He clenched Shen Xiao's hand and said in a deep voice: "Xiaoxiao, I will protect you." Your family is full of bad people, let's ignore them. ”

Shen Xiao smiled: "What are you talking about? I don't need your protection." I've handled it very well over the years, and I don't care what they think of me. They can love their son as much as they want, and I don't care. ”

Shen Xiao, who kept saying that he didn't care, still couldn't help but turn red at the corners of his eyes.

Just like just now, when she heard her mother's hypocritical "Mom misses you", her eyes immediately turned red.

Deep in Shen Xiao's heart, he still longs for sincere love from his parents.

This is due to her emotions, which are beyond the control of her reason.

However, her strong intellect also tells her: don't be delusional.

The love of her parents is destined to be impossible for her to get in her life.

From the day she was born, when it became known that her gender was a girl, her parents immediately decided to put away all their love and leave it only to their future son.

So Shen Xiao forced herself to withdraw from her original family, forced herself to cut off her expectations and psychological dependence on her parents, she decided to go down the road on her own, and as for her parents, treat them like strangers.

If you treat your parents as strangers, you won't feel sorry for them because they are partial to your younger brother.

If you treat your parents as strangers, you can smile and say to yourself: It doesn't matter if they love me or not, I don't care anyway.

Not care.

But...... Can you really not care?

Who really doesn't care?

The child who was forced to leave had blood in his heart all the time, and his wounds never really healed.

In the face of winter, they stubbornly shouted, "I don't care, I'm doing well by myself!", huddled alone in a small cave, relying on a small fire they had built to resist the roaring snow storm outside the cave.

They were scared.